It’s mango season!

By Linda Gassenheimer
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Jul 9, 2018 at 7:00 AM

Here’s a quick summer salad. Sweet mangoes, roasted chicken and a tangy dressing provide contrasting flavors. Lush, ripe mangoes are hanging from the trees in Florida. It’s the best time of year to buy mangoes throughout the United States.

Buy roasted chicken breast in the cooked meat case or deli for the salad. No cooking is needed for this dinner.

The mangoes are cut into cubes for the salad. Here is a quick way to do that:

Slice off each side of the mango as close to the seed as possible. Take the mango half in your hand, skin side down. Score the fruit in a crisscross pattern through to the skin. Bend the skin backwards so the cubes pop up. Slice the cubes away from the skin. Score and slice any fruit left on the pit.

Linda Gassenheimer is an author of over 30 cookbooks. Her newest is “The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook.” Find her on Facebook (@FoodNewsandViews) and Twitter (@LGassenheimer), and listen to her podcasts at www.880thebiz.com.